‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Nov. 17
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 17, 2008 at 6:41pm
“Spansion Suit Seeks to Ban Imports of iPods, BlackBerrys: Spansion Inc., a maker of memory chips going through tough times, is launching high-stakes litigation against Samsung Electronics Co. that seeks to block U.S. imports of hit products that include iPods and iPhones from Apple Inc. and BlackBerrys from Research In Motion Ltd.”—Wall Street Journal
“Google speech recognition app for iPhone delayed by Apple?: Google unleashed its improved Google iPhone app to the press and supposedly to Apple. But it hasn’t yet hit the Apple store. What gives?”—Computerworld
“Supercomputing show comes to Austin: Experts meet to discuss technical challenges, potential breakthroughs, cutting-edge research and job prospects.”—Austin Statesman
“Apple: Ten Years Later: And by that I mean a comparison of Apple Computer today—or, at least, January 2007—with the Apple Computer of August 1997 [a video].”—Electric Escape
“The new MacBook is Apple’s stealth business notebook: Many observers consider the iPhone to be Apple’s Trojan horse for the enterprise market. And with good reason. Figures just out show that Apple sold more than 10 million iPhones during its first 15 months. With or without IT approval, a whole lot of Apple smart phones are being used in business.”—Computerworld
“Developers prefer Macs: Apple systems have become the tools of choice for coders of all kinds, but not without a few aches and pains”—InfoWorld
“Should Apple engage in I Spy with stolen iPods? ‘Kill switch’ that allows the manufacturer to disable iPhones could be applied to music players to discourage theft, some say”—The Globe and the Mail
“Is Apple making an iPod ‘Stick’? It’s still two whole months until MacWorld, but already the rumourmill is billowing smoke.”—Stuff.tv
“What do you want to see next from Apple?: Any day now the Macworld rumors are going to start spinning into high gear. There will be rumors between now and January about everything from the iTablet (still not happening) to Apple gaming consoles, new iMacs, new Mac Minis, iPhone nanos, and Heaven’s knows what else.”—Apple Gazette
“Soon a revelution for the iMacs?: A new rumour implies that Apple could make a small revolution with its next range of iMacs. Currently, these machines are designed by the engineers at Apple to be like ‘office portables’, using many the components intended for the mobile machines. This allows them to be very thin, making them appear as being just a screen.—HardMac
“The Future of Mobile Software: The software business is going mobile. That shift will present new challenges but also new opportunities for developers. Here’s how the mobile market has evolved into being today’s promising next frontier for new software models.”—Roughly Drafted
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
